exlibrarykrisJan 30

Incredible story from #NZGeo on volunteer crews in Hawkes Bay cleaning up after Cyclone Gabrielle.

Includes silt, bureaucracy, desperate people, anti-vaxxers, silt, sovereign citizen movement, community, silt, ongoing cleanup of silt.

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/cyclone-gabrielle

(Should be free to read but there is a monthly limit on articles without a subscription.)

After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives

Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home. On February 14, 2023, floodwaters filled their houses with mud and destroyed possessions, memories, and livelihoods. Survivors were left virtually on their own to tackle the massive clean-up job—until a network of volunteers began digging out houses and supporting them through the trauma, forging unexpected connections along the way.

New Zealand Geographic
felonious.monkeyOct 10
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#westcoast #nz #nzgeo
MarsdenFeb 12, 2024

"What I’m most struck by is how many people still need help with the silt, 10 months after the storm. ... Conspicuously absent from his list is any national or local government authority or major charity. I hear the same thing over and over again from residents of Pakowhai and Omahu and Esk Valley: the only people they could find to help were volunteers. “Without them,” one told me, “we’d still be knee-deep in mud.”

#CycloneGabrielle #NZGeo #Aotearoa

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/cyclone-gabrielle/

After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives

Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home. On February 14, 2023, floodwaters filled their houses with mud and destroyed possessions, memories, and livelihoods. Survivors were left virtually on their own to tackle the massive clean-up job—until a network of volunteers began digging out houses and supporting them through the trauma, forging unexpected connections along the way.

New Zealand Geographic
Oceans CraigApr 3, 2023
I knew roughly about this story but not the details… wow. They were so close to shore when things started to go wrong. #Antarctica #IceFloes #TakeARadio #NZgeo https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/at-the-mercy-of-the-ice/
At the mercy of the ice

In the Antarctic summer of 1972, four young scientists set off on a trimaran from Cape Bird for a quick outing on a clear day. They would spend the next five days stranded at sea, jumping between ice floes that shattered and sank beneath them, risking their lives with every leap.

New Zealand Geographic